The Energon Pub

[El Duque]

Thanks to iTunes we have our first sneak peek inside the pages of Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #21. Check out the three page preview below:

SHOCKPOINT! In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, SHOCKWAVE makes his move—and SOUNDWAVE and the DECEPTICONS step up to stop him! While the battle of the century rocks the ancient ruins of the Crystal City, dig back into the history of these titanic rivals!

[Yweggo]

So... Soundwave can't talk?

[The Variable]

So... Soundwave can't talk?

I don't read RID regularly, but I heard he got his voicebox shot out during one of the battles leading up to the last big conflict there.

Probably a (pardon the term) shout-out to the silent Soundwave in Prime. Actually, I don't mind this kind of characterization. I always thought of G1 Soundwave as being the cold emotionless Decepticon, "uncharismatic bore", and all that-- but that role seems to have been taken up by Shockwave now, so a silent, but highly empathic (emotion-sensitive) Soundwave strikes me as very interesting.

[Heckfire]

Going by the dialogue, he has that condition I heard about where you "hear" oolors and "smell" sounds and the like (can't remember the name, I wanna say "aphasia" but that doesn't sound right)...this is actually kinda interesting.

...honestly, MTMTE is the way better comic but RID is actually a pretty good read, too.

[Black Bumblebee]

The condition is called Synesthesia